There are over 30,000 non-profits using Facebook as a resource for advocacy and social change. It's time for UCF to also harness the power of Facebook: to raise awareness of our work, to share information, and to enlarge and mobilize our communities of interest.

Our Facebook page will serve as a hub to promote timely events and share news items that might otherwise lose their currency on the UCF website. It will facilitate a more immediate exchange of information between UCF and affiliated organizations with common goals. It will also effectively become our blog, the site where our various communities will be engaged and encouraged to engage with one another.

Urban Communication Foundation

We invite you to visit us on Facebook, to join the conversation, and to help us advance the Foundation's mission.

The UCF is proud to announce the White Paper Proposal, the first call for research reports on the topic of Digital Networks and Urban Public Space. Interested researchers should submit a proposal outlining the research problem and how it intersects with established urban questions or problems that have yet to be adequately addressed.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

• how urban architecture can use digital scaffolding to enhance public spaces
• how Federal or municipal communication policies can positively impact municipal governments or civic life
• the relationship between open data, communication infrastructures, and better government
• communication technology-focused citizen engagement
• how digital networks alter sense of place and change the shape and role of cities

Proposals should be submitted to Eric Gordon at Eric_Gordon@emerson.edu no later than April 30, 2012. Funding decisions will be made by June 1, 2012. White papers should be completed no later than May 1, 2013. White papers will be published on the UCF website and disseminated widely.

For more information please visit the White Paper Proposal awards page.

Communication and Community: Bridging Disciplinary Divides

This seminar brings together scholars and professionals from multiple areas within the communication disciplines, and also from other related fields such architecture, design, and urban, planning.

Registration fee: $50
Date and Location: Thurs, May 24, 9 AM– 5 PM, Phoenix, Arizona
Sponsor: The Urban Communication Foundation

For more information, please visit the seminar page.